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Introduce automatic penalties when a contact order is broken repeatedly.

Submitted on Wednesday 4th October 2017

Published on Tuesday 17th October 2017

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 17th April 2018

Signatures: 3,615

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Child ~ Children ~ Police

Petition Action

Introduce automatic penalties when a contact order is broken repeatedly.

Petition Details

There are many cases documented where one parent repeatedly breaks the Contact Order without penalty and the injured party (normally the father) has to keep going back to Court, at their expense, to try and see their child. This often results in fathers losing contact with their child.

Additional Information

Introducing more stringent automatic penalties when a parent repeatedly breaks a contact order without good reason will help keep parents in their children’s lives. We would also like a named body that can investigate when a contact order is breached. In many European countries, the police intervene immediately to ensure the rights of the child to see their non-resident parent are protected. The existing system is too slow and unwieldy and the penalties are unenforceable.


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